Donald Trump says communists want to blow up Mount Rushmore. He offered no evidence. The 80-year-old president made the claim Wednesday, July 22, at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia. He had flown in from Dover Air Base in Delaware, where he attended the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members killed amid the Iran war.
Donald Trump claims political opponents want to “blow up” Mount Rushmore in campaign speech
Trump reached back to his July 3 address at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, calling it a beautiful place. “You know, the communists want to take it down,” he told the crowd, which cheered. He pressed further, saying, “Try taking Mount Rushmore down, they want to blow it up,” before adding, “These people are crazy.”
The remarks echoed his South Dakota speech weeks earlier, when he said “communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. He ranked that threat above World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor and 9/11, telling the audience, “You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot.”
Trump has increasingly applied the label to progressives ahead of the midterms, though prominent figures in the democratic socialist movement have not pushed for a communist model of government, as per People. Pointing to Democratic primary wins backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, he said, “They’re not social democrats.” He later added, “I think I’d be the greatest communist in history.”
He gave no evidence of a plan by communists to destroy Mount Rushmore. Calls to remove the monument have come mainly from Native American tribes, including the Cheyenne River Sioux, who say it was carved on sacred land. No widespread government movement exists to tear it down.
Trump has floated joining the monument himself. He raised the idea in a 2017 Ohio speech, then declined to say it outright because “the fake news media” would run with it. Officials call expanding the carvings unfeasible, though former superintendent Dan Wenk told The New York Times that “these types of ideas are no longer off the table.”
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